A las Boyd-Barricadas!

Notice anything missing from that already-famous image (the blurriness of which is down to the SWP, not me)? Yep, the logo of the KKE has been cropped out from the bottom right-hand corner. The irony of a Trotskyist organisation applying the Stalinist airbrush to a Stalinist image just amused me.

Cheap shots aside, I congratulate the SWP on being the first left group to instigate anything approaching an act of mass resistance in the current crisis. There’s been a positive orgy of hand-wringing from both left and right towards the cut-price sans-cullotes who stormed The Duke of Leinster’s Goodtime Emporium. Personally, I say good on ’em. There was obviously no violent or malicious intent involved and it made the protest harder to ignore. The folks who ended up on the wrong end of the truncheons last night were genuinely “taking the pain” in the national interest.